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- Paige Alexander, Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Roddy Brett, Victoria K. Holt, Louisa Lombard, Monica McWilliams, Catherine Panter-Brick, Enrica Picco, Honey Thomas, Alexander Thurston, Jason Quinn, Bisa Williams
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This brief draws on case studies of civil war to consider how sustainable peacebuilding can be practiced. The authors take the view that peace agreements mark the beginning, not the end, of a process of national reform and reconciliation in both the institutional and normative spheres. Peace agreements, when properly designed, have the potential to do more for a country than put an end to the immediate violence; they can present a turning point.
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- 2023-02-28
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- Author(s):
- David Cortright, Anna Romandash
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The latest edition of the global Women Peace and Security Index draws on recognized data sources to measure women’s inclusion, justice, and security. From a total of 170 countries, Iraq came in at 166. Within the Middle East and North Africa region, Iraq ranked third lowest, with only Syria and Yemen behind. The position of women within Iraqi society has deteriorated rapidly since the 1991 Gulf War. Women and girls were disproportionately affected by the economic consequences of sanctions. Th…
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- 2023-02-28
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- Author(s):
- Maria Carnovale, Ellis A. Adams
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This brief explores smart sanitation technology (SST) in a variety of low-to-middle income country contexts. While SST interventions are recognized as highly effective in community health settings, they come with many considerations that must be weighed before their implementation. This report explores different SST interventions, the benefits and drawbacks to each, and related public health and policy implications.
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- 2023-02-08
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- Author(s):
- Michael Cooper, Paul Perrin
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As digital society transforms our lives, MEL practitioners and policy makers will need to develop new paradigms, protocols, and practices for performing in an emerging Web 3.0 landscape driven by blockchain technology. Our effective and equitable performance will require evidence-driven tools that can only result from collaborative and curated learning. This Web 3.0 Learning Agenda contributes to this learning by posing the initial data governance, measurement, and ethical knowledge gaps for…
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- 2022-11-09
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- Author(s):
- Nancy McCarthy, Paul Winters
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There is renewed interest in irrigation to help build climate resilience in sub-Saharan on the part of governments and donors. However, many previous irrigation investments have significantly underperformed. In this brief we consider the factors that are associated with irrigation system performance for two different types of systems: surface water irrigation schemes with many irrigators and groundwater pumping systems adopted by individual farmers. Surface water schemes that take advanta…
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- 2022-11-09
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- Author(s):
- Marc F. Muller, Diane Desierto, Ellis Adams, Georges Enderle, Elizabeth Dolan, Ray Offenheiser, Leonardo Bertassello, Nathaniel Hanna, Shambhavi Shekokar, Sean O'Neill, Tom Purekal
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Worsening global water insecurity drastically impairs the health and livelihoods of communities throughout the world, while further endangering interlinked ecosystems in our planet. This is especially true in areas impacted by water-intensive, yet critically needed, industries like the mining, beverage, garment, and agriculture sectors. Within these industrial spaces, any effective water stewardship strategy or allocation plan must consider the human right to water. This paper introduces the …
- Date Created:
- 2022-11-08
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- Author(s):
- Justin Stoler, Danice Brown Guzman, Ellis A. Adams
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Many water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions have traditionally implemented monitoring and evaluation plans that use a narrow set of WASH indicators that reflect a 20th-century prioritization of microbiological water quality as the most important proxy for WASH intervention success. Even when water is microbiologically safe, there are often substantial structural, behavioral, and institutional barriers to access. Measures of WASH intervention success should incorporate these impac…
- Date Created:
- 2022-09-15
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On a quarterly basis, the Kroc Institute produces independent, impartial, and academically rigorous information on the status of the implementation of the Final Accord. The quarterly reports aim to promote implementation processes and public dialogue and are presented to government and non-government entities in charge of implementation, civil society organizations, the international community, and all other parties committed or interested in this process.
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- 2022-08-25
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- Author(s):
- Josefina Echavarría, Cécile Mouly
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Policy Brief No. 7
This brief focuses on influential factors for turning Comprehensive Peace Agreements (CPAs) into sustainable platforms for nonviolent social and political change following internal armed conflict. Taking an extensive look at peace processes involving CPAs, the authors recommend that accord negotiators anticipate implementation challenges and set priorities for accord provisions. In addition, negotiators and mediators should include safeguards in the text of peace agreement…
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- 2022-08-09
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- Author(s):
- Sally Sharif, Madhav Joshi
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Policy Brief No. 12
Since the end of the Cold War, twenty-four civil wars have ended in rebel victory. New rebel governments face existential threats both internally and externally. With rebel victory, international actors may quickly resort to putting pressure on former non-state actors to prevent renewed conflict. In addition, the structural factors that influence rebel victory in armed conflict, such as weak institutions, economic and political grievances, and arms availability, condition…
- Date Created:
- 2022-08-09
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- Author(s):
- Rothkopf, Ilana
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Policy Brief No. 11
How do peace agreements lead to new constitutions? Can constitutionalizing Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) provisions supplement or reinforce CPAs? In countries emerging from civil conflict, constitutional reform is increasingly used as both a conflict-management and state-building mechanism. Nineteen of thirty-four (55.8%) CPAs in the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) dataset include a provision for constitutional reform, and constitutional reform has been initiated to some…
- Date Created:
- 2022-08-09
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- Author(s):
- William Kakenmaster, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Debra Javeline, Angela Chesler
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As climate changes, coastal homeowners are potentially crucial actors in reducing the risks to property and human life from rising seas and increased hurricane activity. Absent strict, enforceable regulations mandating retrofitting of existing homes or major changes in homeowner insurance requirements, coastal resilience in a changing climate will largely reflect private, voluntary decisions of millions of individuals. However, research is scarce on the current risk level of U.S. coastal home…
- Date Created:
- 2022-07-19
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- Public